THE highly celebrated Chinua Achebe, it was, who put the inevitability of death in the most succinct manner in his book, Things Fall Apart when he wrote:  “A man who does not surrender to anything will one day surrender to the death mat”. So, it was with my father, Chief Samuel Oladipo Oyebode, who heeded the final call on December 19, 2021, when the angelic host arrived at his bedside in the wee hours of the day. He took a ride with them in their chariot.